Re: Fw: DriveReady SeekComplete problems

hi ya artur

On Sat, 11 May 2002, Danilo Godec wrote:

On Fri, 10 May 2002, Artur Jasowicz wrote:

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The more I think about it the more it seems like the system not
keeping up with the drives though. Isn't it strange that both my 2000+

make sure that all your disks on the same ide cable is of the same
speed...  and its options defined similarly...
	ata33 on one cable...
	ata66 on a 80-pin ide cable - no other disk speeds
	ata100 on a different ide cable
	ata133 on a different ide cable..
	-- do NOT mix drives of different ata speeds..

	hdparam -iv /dev/hdxx  will tell you what speed it is

make sure that your cables are good/clean and not bent out of shape..

http://www.linux-1u.net/Disks

c ya
alvin

It's a wild guess, but you might want to try disabling one of the
processors using 'nosmp' kernel parameter. Maybe Athlons have some issues
with SMP configuration.

Next would be testing a single drive. If the problem exists using a single
drive, you should try some other controller (I never used a HPT, but a
friend of mine has a problem with it - dunno what exactly though).

OR, having three IDE controllers sharing one IRQ just might be a problem.
I remember that on my SMP motherboards I had a lot more available IRQs
(over 25), available through APIC (whatever that is).